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“I think she's brave. I think that nobody has ever believed what she could be capable of. All her life, nobody was listening.”
“Home?' I say. It's a word that can mean anywhere and nowhere.”
“Wanting to be happy is not stupid.”
“The madness of youth made me unafraid.”
“We'll squeeze every second that we can from our lives, because we're young, and we have plenty of years to grow. We'll grow until we're braver. We'll grow until our bones ache and our skin wrinkles...”
“We're all born an empty page.”
“There is a dark place calling to me, but I will not go just yet. I know I can't return from it.”
“They're making me go to school," Pram said. "I don't think it's a very good idea. I've read about how cruel kids can be.""Are you afraid they'll be cruel, or that being around them for too long wil...”
“A feeling can't kill you.”
“She smiles at our husband as she moves, and he blushes, overcome by her beauty. But I know what her smile really means...Her smile is her revenge.”
“Stone gnomes and angels filled the gardens, and it seemed that they were also sleeping, as though a witch had cast a spell on them.”
“Vaughn is talking about the heat, and his voice is so excited that it breaks into whispers at times. He loves his madness the way a bird loves the sky.”
“When we're alive, life consumes us. But when we die, all of the color and the motion is gone so quickly, it's as though it can no longer stand to be wasted on us.”
“Maybe it is desperation," I say. "Maybe we can't let things fall apart without trying. We can't let go of the people we love."He looks at me, and in the sunlight his eyes come alive with greens and...”
“They're dead. We're alive. We have things to do.”
“But theres no such thing as free. There are only different and more horrible ways to be enslaved.”
“Ah, love. Thats what the world has lost. Theres no more love, only the illusion of it.”
“It's best to let her go," he says.No, no, that's wrong. It's never right to give up on someone.”
“He talks softly, patiently, as I sit on the window ledge and watch boats with colorful triangles for sails scratch the ocean.”
“I see an ocean thats spilled out of a wineglass, its body clear and sparkling and folding over itself. I see a ribbon of sand.”
